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• When the king's face brightens it spells life, his favour is like the rain in spring. (Proverbs 16, 15)

• Clouds and wind, but no rain: such is anyone whose promises are princely but never kept. (Proverbs 25, 14)

• The north wind begets the rain, and a backbiting tongue, black looks. (Proverbs 25, 23)

• Snow no more befits the summer, nor rain the harvest-time, than honours befit a fool. (Proverbs 26, 1)

• The wicked oppresses the weak: here is a devastating rain -- and farewell, bread! (Proverbs 28, 3)

• Thanks to idleness, the roof-tree gives way, thanks to carelessness, the house lets in the rain. (Ecclesiastes 10, 18)

• When clouds are full of rain, they will shed it on the earth. If a tree falls, whether south or north, where it falls, there it will lie. (Ecclesiastes 11, 3)

• before the sun and the light grow dim and the moon and stars, before the clouds return after the rain; (Ecclesiastes 12, 2)

• Snow and ice endured the fire, without melting; this was to show them that, to destroy the harvests of their enemies, fire would burn even in hail and flare in falling rain, (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 22)

• The sands of the sea, the drops of rain, the days of eternity -- who can count them? (Ecclesiasticus 1, 2)

• Mercy is welcome in time of trouble, like rain clouds in time of drought. (Ecclesiasticus 35, 24)

• Ill-gotten wealth will vanish like a torrent, like the single thunder-clap that heralds rain. (Ecclesiasticus 40, 13)